Results · Financial Services
PB Fintech Q4 profit jumps 54% to ₹261 crore
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- Date
- Company
- PB Fintech
- What it does
- Online insurance and lending marketplace
- Kind
- Results
- Stage
- public
- Founded
- 2008
- Sector
- Financial Services
What they do
PB Fintech runs Policybazaar and Paisabazaar, India's largest online insurance and lending marketplace
What happened
Q4 FY26 net profit rose 54% YoY to ₹261 Cr; FY26 revenue grew 37% to ₹6,794 Cr
Why it matters
FY26 profit margin hit 10%, up from 6%, as new initiatives narrowed losses and UAE turned profitable
The details
- PB Fintech reported Q4 FY26 operating revenue of ₹2,061 Cr, up 37% year-on-year.
- Q4 net profit came in at ₹261.2 Cr, up 54% from ₹169.7 Cr a year ago.
- For full FY26, revenue reached ₹6,794 Cr, up 37% from ₹4,977 Cr in FY25.
- FY26 net profit (excluding exceptional items) was ₹670 Cr, up 115% year-on-year.
- FY26 total insurance premium rose 42% to ₹29,934 Cr; protection premiums grew 57%.
- FY26 lending disbursals hit ₹30,740 Cr, up 50%; core online lending fell 20% after a Q1 reboot.
- Q4 adjusted EBITDA was ₹280 Cr, up 89%; reported EBITDA was ₹218 Cr, up 95%.
- The UAE business turned profitable for the first time in FY26, with premiums up 54%.
The bigger picture
- PB Fintech's profit margin expanded from 6% to 10% in FY26, showing operating leverage.
- New initiatives (PB Partners, PB for Business, UAE) improved adjusted EBITDA margin from -9% to -4%.
- Renewal and trail revenue grew 40% in FY26, providing a growing recurring base.
- The company's market cap stood at ₹78,797 Cr (about $8.3 billion) on results day.
About the business
- PB Fintech is the parent of Policybazaar (insurance marketplace) and Paisabazaar (credit and credit scores).
- Policybazaar launched in 2008; Paisabazaar launched in 2014.
- It follows an asset-light model: it does not underwrite insurance or retain credit risk.
- In fiscal 2020, Policybazaar held 93.4% market share of digital insurance policies sold in India.
- PB Partners has over 4.5 lakh advisors across 19,000 pin codes, covering 99% of India.
- New initiatives include PB Partners, PB for Business, UAE operations, and PB Connect.
- As of June 2026, it had sold 71.6 million insurance policies and served 60.6 million credit score customers.
What happens next
- The company did not state specific future plans in the facts.
The deal
- Type
- results
Founders
- Yashish Dahiya, Chairman and CEO
- Alok Bansal, Co-founder
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